Pith Number

pith:54KAEBEQ

pith:2020:54KAEBEQAANSNGTAZ2RAISBAJC

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A variational quantum algorithm for Hamiltonian diagonalization

Bei Zeng, Chao Zhang, Chenfeng Cao, Jinfeng Zeng, Pengxiang Xu

arxiv:2008.09854 v3 · 2020-08-22 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{54KAEBEQAANSNGTAZ2RAISBAJC}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:59:53.831771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef14020490001b269a60cea204482048b980370a498352d1edfb2e547f5898c9

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.09854 · arxiv_version: 2008.09854v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.09854 · pith_short_12: 54KAEBEQAANS · pith_short_16: 54KAEBEQAANSNGTA · pith_short_8: 54KAEBEQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/54KAEBEQAANSNGTAZ2RAISBAJC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ef14020490001b269a60cea204482048b980370a498352d1edfb2e547f5898c9

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-22T15:20:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38ba1a775f422ae5ceb1ed523de203af312e5dbf8efa4caa767b0a91c7c79b50"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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